A Dialogue with Death: Ritual Lament and the θρῆνος Θεοτόκου of Romanos Melodos [PDF]
Romanos’ dialogic kontakion “Mary at the Cross” seeks to reconcile competing literary and religious traditions concerned with lamenting death, in the historical context of the growth of the cult of Mary and that of icons.
Gregory W. Dobrov
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REFLECTION OF OUR LADY IN THE FRESCOES OF THE AKATHIST DIONYSIUS [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is to determine the characteristics of Akathist topics in monumental painting of Dionysius the example Ferapontova frescoes of the monastery.The novelty of the work is determined by the fact that the iconography of Dionysius ...
Ирина Васильевна Самсонова
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Kontakion in Hagia Sophia [PDF]
In 2014, an international team of scholars measured the acoustical properties of eight churches in Thessaloniki. The recordings are part of an article in Hesperia that examines two of the tested churches, the Acheiropoietos basilica and the cathedral of ...
Kyriakakis, Chris, Raptis, Constantinos
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Petrescu (I.D.), Condacul Nasterii Domnului Ἡ παρθένος σήμερον [Le Kontakion de Noël]. Studiu de muzicologie comparata. [PDF]
Gouillard J. Petrescu (I.D.), Condacul Nasterii Domnului Ἡ παρθένος σήμερον [Le Kontakion de Noël]. Studiu de muzicologie comparata.. In: Études byzantines, tome 1, 1943. pp.
Gouillard, Jean
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Voices Interwoven: Refrains and Vocal Participation in the Kontakia [PDF]
Refrains were vital to the hymnic genres which emerged in Late Antiquity: the Hebrew piyyut, the Syriac madrasha, and the Greek kontakion. This article studies the complexities of congregational participation by exploring the narrative dynamics of ...
Arentzen, Thomas
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“The Great Initiate of God’s Grace” : A Kontakion on Saint Nicholas by Pseudo-Romanos [English Translation] with an introduction by Uffe H. Eriksen [PDF]
During the ninth and tenth centuries, St Nicholas of Myra became increasingly popular as a saint, eventually rising to rank of the apostles in veneration.
Eriksen, Uffe Holmsgaard
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“The Great Initiate of God’s Grace” : A Kontakion on Saint Nicholas by Pseudo-Romanos [translated with Thomas Arentzen] with an introduction by Uffe H. Eriksen [PDF]
During the ninth and tenth centuries, St Nicholas of Myra became increasingly popular as a saint, eventually rising to rank of the apostles in veneration.
Holmsgaard Eriksen, Uffe
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Greek Christian hymnography through the ages: a survey
La poesía religiosa es uno de los grandes representantes de la literatura bizantina. Dentro de la esfera poética se encuentra el género de la himnografía, cuyo máximo exponente es un tipo de himno conocido como kontákion. Desde su descubrimiento en el s.
Miriam Urbano-Ruiz
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Review of the Book: Pravdolyubov S., archpriest. Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (History. Poetics. Theology). Moscow: Publishing House of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church, Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Troitskoye-Golenishchevo, 2023. 480 p. [PDF]
The author reviews the publication of the master’s thesis of Archpriest Sergius Pravdolyubov The Great Canon of St. Andrew of Crete (History. Poetics. Theology), defended in 1987.
Dmitry V. Spitsyn
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